How to Nurture Your Creativity and Find Inspiration with Cristina Martinez

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This week we’re continuing our exploration of the intersection of wellness and creativity. According to research, creative expression can support feelings of motivation and overall well-being. However, many people have aversions to creativity due to bias, perfectionism, and fear of failure or not creating a perfect result.

To wrap up our series on New Life and Creativity we’re talking to our guest Cristina Martinez about how she’s found healing through creativity, and how creativity has influenced her career and relationships.

Cristina Martinez is a contemporary visual artist based in Seattle, Washington. Her career started in fashion school before she explored self-expression through painting. Cristina’s work is rooted in telling the often-overlooked stories of Black and Brown people, encouraging them to water themselves to bloom and grow in this journey called life.

This conversation inspires us all to tap into our creativity for healing, and a deeper connection to our loved ones and ourselves.

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We Also Talk About…

  • How our relationship with creativity can evolve over time.
  • Ways to draw inspiration when you need it most.
  • The ups and downs of having a creative career.
  • How Cristina supports her kids’ creativity.
  • The ways creativity can help us bloom, and what it means to bloom.
  • How collaboration and community can foster creativity.

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Nurture Creativity and Find Inspiration

Creativity can feel like a privilege. But the reality is, creativity is a critical skill for living a healthy, happy life. Here are some tips for nurturing creativity and finding inspiration.

Lead with Your Imagination

There can be so much freedom in allowing ourselves to openly create and express ourselves without feeling like what we create needs to have a specific end-product. Cristina shared that one of her favorite forms of self-care is working on pieces that she creates with no intention of releasing to the world, for stress release and creative freedom.

Learn to Enjoy the Process, Not the End Result

As a professional artist, Cristina emphasizes the importance of enjoying the journey as much as we enjoy the destination. For her, this means enjoying the process of creating art as much as we enjoy the end result. When we learn to enjoy the process, we are able to reap the healing benefits of creativity because we are not too attached to the outcome.

Foster Connection Through Creativity

Creative expression can be an incredible way to strengthen our connection with others. Whether that’s through sharing what we create with the people we love or participating in creative activities with other people in our lives, we can strengthen our bonds with the people in our lives through exploring creativity together.

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